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When Are Well Baby Checks?

Luckily the first year of your child’s life won’t be spent in his pediatrician’s office.  Well baby checkups or well child care visits are scheduled only nine times per year. Generally well baby checks are scheduled as follows:

Two-three days from discharge
Two weeks
One month
Two months
Three months
Four months
Six months
Nine months
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Choosing Your Baby’s Pediatrician : Interview Sheet

Choosing your Baby’s Pediatrician is such an important task for any parent.  There are so many Doctors out there and with the world of medicine constantly changing, it is difficult to be a well informed consumer without going to medical school yourself.  I have some links at the bottom of this posting with reference tools [...]

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Natural High for Mom is Baby’s Smile

Houston researchers have found that mothers who see their baby smile have similar physiological reactions that drug addicts have when they take drugs. Greatest amounts of blood flow to the brain were recorded when mothers saw pictures of their own babies, versus when they saw pictures of other infants to whom they were not [...]

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